The Ministry of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands has awarded three prizes to the IES Las Maretas, located in the San Francisco Javier neighborhood of Arrecife, in recognition of the work of the students on the heritage of the Canary Islands.
In addition, in the overall calculation of the Canary Islands, the regional Executive recognizes with 12 prizes and two accésit the work of students and teachers of Primary, Secondary, Baccalaureate, Intermediate and Higher Level Training Cycles and Adult Education Centers on various aspects of the heritage of the islands within the framework of the second awards for complementary and extracurricular activities projects.
In Secondary Education, the first prize was awarded to 1st year of ESO from IES La Maretas for their work "Vestiges of a natural amphitheater", and to 2nd year of ESO from the same educational center for the proposal "Mist and volcano under a sea of algae".
In addition, in Baccalaureate and Intermediate and Higher Level Training Cycles, IES Las Maretas won a second prize, with the work "Walls, stone, reminiscences... identity". In this category, the first prize went to IES Luis Cobiella Cuevas (Santa Cruz de la Palma).
The Deputy Minister of Education, Universities and Sports, María Dolores Rodríguez; the General Director of Centers, Infrastructure and Educational Promotion, Laly González, the Deputy of the Común, Rafael Yanes, and the first adjunct to the same, Felipe Afonso, presented these distinctions this Wednesday, Wednesday, June 1, at the Guiniguada Theater in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
It was organized by the General Directorate of Centers, Infrastructure and Educational Promotion, through the Educational Programs and Extracurricular Activities Service. The head of the Educational Programs and Extracurricular Activities Service, José Antonio Quintana, also attended the event.
The Ministry of Education points out that these awards "value the integral development of students from the combination of contents that value heritage, material or immaterial aspects of the islands". In addition, they point out that the initiatives presented to the contest are linked to the localities where the respective educational centers are located, and in them different technological tools and resources were used such as the recording and editing of video, audio and photography.
Laly González remarked that these awards recognize "teamwork, the use of technology as a means to express the best of each and every one, and the ability to solve challenges, but also effort and self-confidence." "Audio and video come together to tell a story of learning, of illusion, of commitment and of love for the land", she added.
Award winners throughout the Canary Islands
The projects in which the students and teachers participated included, first of all, "Canary Islands at the foot of the photo", which consisted of the development of a set of three artistic or interpretive images of an area of special interest in the environment of the participating centers together with an explanatory video of the process followed.
In this section, in Infant and Primary Education the first prize went to CEIP Ayatimas (San Cristóbal de La Laguna), with their work "Past and present, united in a photo", and the second, to CEIP Adoración Rodríguez Alonso (Guía de Isora), with their photography and video work entitled "Traveling to the past".
Likewise, "We invent, we grow" is another of the initiatives that were convened with the aim of promoting the development of a documentary short film in which concepts associated with significant historical events, environmental, heritage or relevant personalities elements were captured.
In this group, the first prize in the A1 modality of Infant and Primary Education went to CEIP Padre Collado (Telde), with the short film "I was in Lomo Magullo", and the second, to CEIP Parque de la Reina (Arona), with the work "La tomatera".
In the A2 modality, relating to Secondary Education, Baccalaureate and Adult Education Centers, the first prize was awarded to IES Garachico Alcalde Lorenzo Dorta, with the short film "1797", and the second, to IES Bañaderos Cipriano Acosta (Arucas), with the work "Dignity".
Finally, the other educational action was "A Escena", which focused on the elaboration of a filmed play based on a specific event in the life, work, work or significant performance of Canary women of special relevance in the world of culture, education, sports, research or politics, among other aspects.
The first prize went to IES Alonso Pérez Díaz, (Santa Cruz de la Palma), with the proposal "Melito, Jembrita", and the second, to CEIP Padilla, (Firgas), with the work "Sum of so many women in a single woman". IES San Diego de Alcalá (Puerto del Rosario), with "Yesterday is not today", and IES Santiago Santana (Arucas), with "Strings and Bows", obtained accésit.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Education points out that "Let's Talk a Pisco" is a project through which it is intended to implement what has been worked on in the other three, for which the Educational Programs and Extracurricular Activities Service has been progressively completing a repository of videos that can be downloaded from the Service's blog from the next course. It will contemplate different themes through interviews with specialists that serve as an initial challenge for the development of other classroom projects, always linked to different heritage aspects of the Canary reality.
